tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 10:50:27 2003
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: "How is your food?" "What book?"
- From: qaS ngal-qaS <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "How is your food?" "What book?"
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:45:13 -0500
FWIW= For What It's Worth.
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:59:14 +0200 Quvar valer (Lieven) <[email protected]>
writes:
> Holtej:
>
> >In my opinion (FWIW) it's not asking the question you think it's
> asking.
>
> Agreed. What's FWIW?
>
> >I don't think we know whether a Klingon will interpret {chay' 'oH
> SojlIj'e'}
> >literally, or whether they map it onto various underlying meanings
> as we do
> >in English, and thus get to the "does your food taste good" kind of
> meaning.
> > That's why people were suggesting paraphrases such as {'ey''a'
> SojlIj} or
> >{SojlIj DatIv'a'}.
>
> I would like to add that the Klingon culture and language is a very
> direct one. When you speak english (or any other terran language),
> and ask "How is your food?", then this is just small-talk, and
> usually just means something like "is it good?"
> It's not a question about a specific quality of the food. Perhaps
> Data or Mr. Spock would answer "It's warm."
>
> The two suggested klingon paraphrases above show what I'm trying to
> explain: they can both be answered by one word.
>
> Quvar.
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________
The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!